2016 Minnesota Statutes
Chapters 419 - 425 — MUNICIPAL PERSONNEL, RETIREMENT
Chapter 424B — VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS, CONSOLIDATION, DISSOLUTION
Section 424B.01 — DEFINITIONS.
Subdivision 1. Generally. Unless the context of the provision indicates that a different meaning is intended, each of the terms in the following subdivisions has the meaning indicated.
Subd. 2. Applicable municipality. "Applicable municipality" means the municipality or municipalities in which a consolidating relief association is located and to which a consolidating relief association is associated by virtue of the presence of at least one municipal official on the relief association board of trustees under section 424A.04.
Subd. 3. Consolidating relief association. "Consolidating relief association" means a volunteer firefighters relief association organized under chapter 317A and governed by chapter 424A that has initiated or has completed the process of consolidating with one or more other relief associations under this chapter.
Subd. 4. Prior relief associations. "Prior relief associations" means the two or more volunteer firefighters relief associations that have initiated the consolidation process under this chapter by action of the board of trustees of the relief association.
Subd. 5. Relief association membership. "Relief association membership" means all active members of the volunteer firefighters relief association, all deferred retirees and other vested inactive members of the volunteer firefighters relief association, and any persons regularly receiving a service pension or other retirement benefit from the volunteer firefighters relief association.
Subd. 6. Subsequent relief association. "Subsequent relief association" means the volunteer firefighters relief association that is designated to be the successor relief association in the consolidation initiative resolutions of the board of trustees of the prior relief associations or the volunteer firefighters relief association organized under chapters 317A and 424A for the purpose of operating as the successor relief association after consolidation under this chapter.
History: 2000 c 461 art 16 s 1
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